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Ministry of Electronics & IT
India will be a global player in all things technology: MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar
India Techade is about a determined Nation on the move
Govt vision is that India be among the top three economies by 2026-27: MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar today said the Government’s focus has been to push India from being an outlier to become a serious, competitive participant in the global value chains.
“As part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's India Techade vision, we believe that the supply chains and global value chains have to and will continue to diversify and our policies are focused on ensuring that India is a competitive, efficient partner in the chains,” said Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar while addressing the 15th AGM of Public Affairs Forum of India  in New Delhi.
In this context, the Minister spoke about how a number of global players like Apple, Samsung, Cisco who are a dominant part of the global value chain are shifting to India.
Sharing his thoughts on India’s Techade journey, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar said India Techade is changing the narrative of India being a IT/ITEs hub and now it has broadened to include the internet and consumer-tech and will also cover AI, semicon design and production, quantum computing etc. “Our digital economy pie has transitioned from a unipolar prism of IT/ITES to one that consists of almost every activity in the digital economy space that the world is pursuing,” he added.
Referring to semiconductor space, the Minister said, “In just 14 months, the Government has not only created opportunities in manufacturing and design but with a brand-new curriculum in place, we will soon deliver 85,000 talent pool not only for India but also for the world.”
Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar exuded confidence that India will soon be the third economy in the world. “India Techade is really about a determined nation on the move. The government’s vision is very clear. We want to be the top three economies by 2026-27 that certainly is within striking, distance of Japan and Germany.”
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PIB’S BULLETIN ON COVID-19
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- 119.38crvaccine doses have been administered so far under Nationwide Vaccination Drive
- Recovery Rate currently at 98.33%; Highest since March 2020
- 10,264recoveries in the last 24 hours increases Total Recoveries to 3,39,67,962
- 9,119new cases in the last 24 hours
- India's Active caseload stands at 1,09,940; lowest in 539 days
- Active cases account for less than 1% of total cases, currently at0.32%; Lowest since March 2020
- Daily positivity rate  less than 2% for last 52 days
- Weekly Positivity Rate  less than 2% for last 62days
- 63.59cr Total Tests conducted so far
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MINISTRY OF INFORMATION & BROADCASTING
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Short notice for Recruitment by Staff Selection Commission in Western Region
Staff Selection Commission is issuing Recruitment Notice, for various Selection Posts in Central Government department all over India on 05.09.2018 with the closing date of online receipt of application as 30.09.2018, the notice is available on website www.sscwr.net and in Employment News dated 05.09.2018.
The posts in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa which are within the jurisdiction of Staff Selection Commission, Western Region, Mumbai are also included in the advertisement.
For details regarding the Eligibility Conditions, Scheme of the examination Guidelines for filling up online applications form etc. aspirants must refer the detailed Notice of the examination in Western Regional office website: www.sscwr.net
Eligible candidates are required to apply online at http://ssconline.nic.in only before the last date. No Other mode of submission of application is acceptable.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Update on COVID-19
Cabinet Secretary chairs high level review meeting
Cabinet Secretary held a high-level meeting, here today, with Secretaries of the concerned Ministries/Departments to review the status, actions, preparedness and management of COVID-19 cases in the country.
An Advisory is issued for all incoming international passengers retuning to India to self-monitor their health and follow the recommended “DOs and DON’Ts”, since more than 100 countries across the world now have reported cases of COVID-19 and travelers to these countries, or any person having travelled abroad, might possibly have come in contact with people affected with COVID-19 during their stay there or even while in transit at airports.
The Advisory also calls for passengers with travel history to China, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Japan, Italy, Thailand, Singapore, Iran, Malaysia, France, Spain and Germany to undergo self-imposed quarantine for a period of 14 days from the date of their arrival, and their employers to facilitate work-from-home for such employees during this period.
With respect to restrictions on visa, besides the already issued instructions, all regular Visas  which have been granted to nationals of France, Germany and Spain on or before 11.03.2020 and where these foreigners have not yet entered India stands suspended. Regular visas granted to all foreign nationals who have travel history to these countries on or after 1.2.2020 and who have not yet entered India also stands suspended. Visas of all foreigners already in India remain valid and they may contact the nearest FRRO/FRO through e-FRRO module for extension/conversion etc of their visa or grant of any consular service, if they choose to do so. A notification to this effect is being issued by the Bureau of Immigration .
Further, in continuation of already issued advisories on travel to India citizens, India citizens are strongly advised to refrain from travelling to France, Spain and Germany.
A total of fifty  confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the country, till now. After the 44 positive cases declared yesterday, three  positive cases were reported from Bengaluru ; one  more from Bengaluru with travel history from US via Heathrow; and two  positive cases from Pune . Three  of thetotal cases have been discharged now. Of these 50 cases, 34 cases are Indian nationals and 16 are Italians. In addition, the two deaths reported from Murshidabad and Ladakh yesterday in the media were both found to be negative for COVID-19.
More than 1400 contacts have been put under surveillance for these positive cases, till date.Also, 404 Indian contacts of the US citizen tested positive for COVID-19 in Bhutan have been identified and put under surveillance in Assam.
Additionally, the first batch of 58 evacuees from Iran arrived today with 25 men, 31 women and 2 children on board. The IAF C-17 flight arrived at 9.27 am today. All the evacuees are monitored and clinically stable presently.
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Update on COVID-19 Vaccine Availability in States/UTs
More than 140.38 Crore vaccine doses provided to States/UTs
More than 17.06 Crore balance and unutilized vaccine doses still available with States/UTs
The Union Government is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of COVID-19 vaccination throughout the country. The nationwide COVID 19 vaccination started on 16th January 2021. The new phase of universalization of COVID-19 vaccination commenced from 21st June 2021. The vaccination drive has been ramped up through availability of more vaccines, advance visibility of vaccine availability to States and UTs for enabling better planning by them, and streamlining the vaccine supply chain.
As part of the nationwide vaccination drive, Government of India has been supporting the States and UTs by providing them COVID Vaccines free of cost. In the new phase of the universalization of the COVID19 vaccination drive, the Union Government will procure and supply  75% of the vaccines being produced by the vaccinemanufacturers in the country to States and UTs.
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More than140.38crore vaccine doses have been provided to States/UTs so far through Govt of India  and through direct state procurement category.
More than17.06Cr balance and unutilized COVID Vaccine doses are still available with the States/UTs to be administered.
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Biopic to be streamed as tribute to Chandrashekhar Azad
Date: 26th February, 2021
In the momentous journey of awakening of India’s pride and self-belief during the freedom struggle, Chandrashekhar Azad, the great revolutionary, led a band of youth and ignited the flames of patriotism among the countrymen. Films Division is paying tribute to this great son of India on his death anniversary on 27th February, 2021 by screening a biographical documentary on Azad’s life and works. Directed by Purush Baokar, Chandrashekhar Azad  will be streamed on Films Division Website and YouTube channel for 24 hours.
The short biopic throws light on how the Jallianwala Bagh massacre moved Chandrashekhar Azad and how he whole heartedly plunged into the freedom struggle. The film will be streamed on https://filmsdivision.org/Documentary of the Week and https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmsDivision on 27th February, 2021, recalling the patriotic fervour, valour and selflessness of Chandrashekhar Azad.
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Ministry of Science & Technology
Proposals invited from Indian Companies having innovative/indigenous technologies in Waste Domain for technology commercialization
Indian companies having innovative indigenous technologies at commercialization stage in waste management now have an opportunity for support to take them to the next stage.
Technology Development Board , a statutory body of Department of Science & Technology , Government of India, has invited applications from companies with innovative/indigenous technologies in areas focusing on municipal solid waste, plastic waste, construction and demolition  waste, agricultural waste, biomedical waste, E Waste, industrial hazardous and non-hazardous wastes, battery waste, radioactive waste, AI based solutions, aligning with the national requirement and focus on ‘Swachhta’.
TDB will provide financial assistance to select Indian companies for technology commercialization. The evaluation for selection will be based on scientific, technological, financial and commercial merit and financial assistance will be provided in the form of loan, equity and/or grants.
The invitation or call for proposals titled TDB ‘Waste to Wealth’ is in response to the challenge to keep big cities in the country waste free and at the same time generate wealth from waste. With the call, TDB which is a pioneer in helping innovative indigenous technologies, aiming at improving the ease of living for common man, has reached out to help Industry & Academia collaborate to overcome this challenge aiming to realize the vision of the Hon’ble Prime Minister under Swachh Bharat Mission- Urban 2.0 at making all our cities ‘Garbage Free’.
For detailed Funding Guidelines and Proposal Submission, Applicants can TDB’s website- www.tdb.gov.in . Last date to submit the proposal is 03rd July, 2022.
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Ministry of Defence
PANEX-21 culminates with successful conduct of Table Top Exercise
Pune, 22 December 2021
The Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Exercise PANEX-21 which was held at Pune from 20-22 Dec 2021 concluded today. On the final day a Table Top Exercise was conducted to brain storm various aspects related to challenges faced, envisaged contingencies and mitigation measures in conduct of humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations in backdrop of a pandemic. The three days exercise witnessed participation from the senior officials from BIMSTEC countries, government officials and subject matter experts as speakers. PANEX-21 also involved the equipment capability demonstration by the Indian Industries in tackling any future pandemic like situations. The Static display highlighted the expertise achieved by India in handling HADR operations ranging from early warning, reconnaissance through Remotely Piloted Vehicles , Unmanned Aerial Vehicles , Satellite, softwares mapping disaster affected areas, resource management softwares, establishing command control centres like Incident Command Post  etc. It also exhibited the capability of the private Indian Defence Industry with a display of over 250 items customized to deal with the common security concerns of South and South East Asia. The exercise also included the witness of Multi Agency Exercise by Hon’ble Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh alongwith release of compendium.
During the Table Top Exercise, various contingencies were discussed by all stake holders who were divided into syndicates. Each syndicate presented its methodology of conduct of joint humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations, protocols for operating under pandemic conditions and infusion of technology and available resources to undertake such operations. The experience gained during Seminar and Multi Agency Exercise was optimally employed during the Table Top Exercise. The exercise also provided an ideal platform to share best practices to achieve enhanced preparedness and effective response mechanism. Important lessons on capability development, training and regional pooling of resources were also brought out after these intriguing sessions.
The role of Armed forces as a skilled force and at times first responders to disaster situations was also discussed during the exercise. During the table top exercise it mutually agreed that protocols must be evolved for military-to-military cooperation to develop regional trans-national response mechanism. While addressing participants of the table top exercise, Lt Gen JS Nain, GOC-in-C, Southern Command articulated the need for a frame work, information sharing mechanism and protocols for cooperation amongst BIMSTEC nations to overcome common challenges of disasters. The exercise was hugely successful and lessons learnt during the same will go in a long way to develop joint protocols among the BIMSTEC nations.PRO, Pune-M.Iyengar/D.Rane
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Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways
Directorate General of Shipping notified as National Authority for Ships Recycling
DG, Shipping designated as an apex authority under the Recycling of Ships Act, 2019 for the ship recycling industry of India
Office of National Authority will be set up in Gandhinagar,Gujarat
Central Government has notified the Directorate General of Shipping as National Authority for Recycling of Ships under the section 3 of the Recycling of Ships Act, 2019.
As an apex body, DG Shipping is authorized to administer, supervise and monitor all activities relating to Ship Recycling. DG Shipping will look after the sustainable development of the Ship Recycling industry, monitoring the compliance to environment-friendly norms and safety and health measures for the stakeholders working in the ship recycling industry. DG Shipping will be the final authority for the various approvals required by the Ship-Recycling yard owners and State Governments.
Under Ship Recycling Act, 2019, India has acceded to Hong Kong Convention for Ship Recycling under International Maritime Organization . DG Shipping is a representative of India in IMO and all the conventions of IMO are being enforced by DG Shipping.
National Authority of Ship Recycling will be set up in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. The location of the office will benefit the Ship Recycling yard owners situated in Alang, Gujarat which is home of Asia’s largest ship breaking and ship recycling industry in the world.
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Prime Minister's Office
PM’s message on Launch of Chandrayaan 2
Text of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s message on the launch of Chandrayaan 2 is as follows:
“Special moments that will be etched in the annals of our glorious history! The launch of Chandrayaan 2 illustrates the prowess of our scientists and the determination of 130 crore Indians to scale new frontiers of science. Every Indian is immensely proud today!
Indian at heart, Indian in spirit! What would make every Indian overjoyed is the fact that Chandrayaan 2 is a fully indigenous mission. It will have an Orbiter for remote sensing the Moon and also a Lander-Rover module for analysis of lunar surface.
Chandrayaan 2 is unique because it will explore and perform studies on the south pole region of lunar terrain which is not explored and sampled by any past mission. This mission will offer new knowledge about the Moon.
Efforts such as Chandrayaan 2 will further encourage our bright youngsters towards science, top quality research and innovation. Thanks to Chandrayaan, India’s Lunar Programme will get a substantial boost. Our existing knowledge of the Moon will be significantly enhanced.”
Ministry of Power
POWERGRID organises inoculation camps
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited  is a Maharatna PSU under the Ministry of Power, Government of India. During the current pandemic, vaccination has emerged as the most crucial weapon to save lives. In this line, POWERGRID is organizing vaccination camps for its employees and their family members across all its establishments in India. These vaccination drives are catering to its employees, their families and other beneficiaries like superannuated employees, their families, contract workers etc. to safeguard them from the COVID 19 pandemic.
Continuing with these vaccination camps, POWERGRID organized one such camp at BHUJ-II Sub-station  of Western Region-II where approximately 244 persons  were vaccinated.
Another such camp was organized at Shikrapur  on 2nd June 2021. The camp immunized around 140 persons of Shikrapur office of POWERGRID.Vaccination drives were also arranged at various other Sub-stations in Western Region – I.Sitamarhi Sub-station  under Eastern Region-I also organized a vaccination camp where about 71 persons were vaccinated for COVID 19.
Agra Sub-station  organized the vaccination camp in its residential colony under Northern Region – III for the employees and their dependents. In this vaccination camp, all persons were vaccinated free of cost. Agra Sub-station will be organizing another vaccination camp on 5th June 2021 which will be covering all the remaining persons who can be vaccinated in the campus. With this vaccination camp Agra Sub-station will achieve full vaccination of its employees, contract workers and their family members.Vaccination camps are being organised in all the establishments of POWERGRID across the Nation. These vaccination drives are being organized as part of the National mission.
Ministry of Science & Technology
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh says, over 1 lakh 60,000 farmers have received benefits during the Biotech-KISAN scheme in last one year
Biotech-KISAN scheme has been launched to counsel and to provide solutions to the farmers on the problems related to water, soil, seeds and marketing: Dr Jitendra Singh
Union Minister of State  Science & Technology; Minister of State  Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh today informed the Rajya Sabha that so far 1,60,000 farmers have received benefits during the last one-year  Biotech-KISAN scheme.
In a written reply to a question in the Rajy Sabha to day, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the Biotech-KISAN scheme has been launched to counsel and to provide solutions to the farmers on the problems related to water, soil, seeds and marketing;
Under the scheme farmers are provided counselling and demonstrations on improved seed, planting stock of vegetable, interventions for use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria /bio-fertilizers, irrigation & protected cultivation technologies, improved livestock , poultry and fishery as well as health management of livestock/poultry.
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Ministry of Railways
High Speed Rail work gathers momentum
LiDAR  Survey for Delhi - Varanasi High Speed Rail Corridor begins
High Speed Rail work gathers momentum. With the start of LiDAR  Survey today, High Speed Rail work gathered momentum for Delhi - Varanasi High Speed Rail Corridor.
The LiDAR survey for Delhi-Varanasi High Speed Rail Corridor started today from Greater NOIDA where a Helicopter fitted with state of art Aerial LiDAR and Imagery sensors took the first flight and captured the data related to ground survey.
National High Speed Rail Corporation Limited is adopting Light Detection and Ranging Survey  technology which provides all the ground details and data in 3-4 months wherein this process normally takes 10-12 months.
The ground survey is a crucial activity for any linear infrastructure project as the survey provides accurate details of areas around the alignment. This technique uses a combination of Laser data, GPS data, flight parameters and actual photographs to give accurate survey data.
During the Aerial LiDAR survey, 300 mtrs  of area around the proposed alignment is being captured for the survey purpose. After the collection of data, Three Dimensional  Topographical map of 50 mtrs corridor on either side of the proposed alignment on a scale of 1:2500 will be available for designing of the vertical & horizontal alignment, structures, location of the stations and depots, Land requirement for the corridor, identification of project affected plots/structures, Right of Way etc
As per the nine  standard benchmarks set by the Survey of India in this field, 86 master control points and 350 secondary control points have been established and these coordinates are being used for flying the aircraft on Delhi-Varanasi HSR corridor alignment.
To provide clear pictures of the structures, trees and other minute ground details,60 megapixel cameras are being used for the LiDAR survey.
NHSRCL has been entrusted to prepare the Detailed Project Reports for seven  High Speed Rail Corridors and LiDAR survey technique will be used for ground survey in all the corridors.
Additional details:
Detailed project report for Delhi Varanasi High Speed Rail Corridor has been submitted to Ministry of Railways on 29th October 2020. The proposed plan for DVHSR Corridor will connect the National Capital Territory  of Delhi with major cities like Mathura, Agra, Etawah, Lucknow, Raebareli, Prayagraj, Bhadohi, Varanasi and Ayodhya. The main corridor from Delhi to Varanasi  will also be connected to Ayodhya. The High Speed Rail  route will also connect the upcoming international airport at Jewar in Gautam Buddha Nagar District of Uttar Pradesh.
Link to download high resolution Lidar flight videos:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p1WF3veRiUM2_gKuzgHQY1YynoZl_9RN?usp=sharing
Previous press release on the same topic can be viewed here:
https://www.nhsrcl.in/en/media/press-release/nhsrcl-adopts-aerial-lidar-survey-technique-conduct-ground-survey-delhi